Aoshima Mr X Dekotora

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All the leftover plastic - I think that they make many Dekotora from these sprues.
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I have tremors so sometimes I screw up the glue - here I tried to remove superglue with debonder and stripped the chrome.
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January 20, 2019
replaced the bad chrome with bare metal foil. If I'd sanded it you probably wouldn't be able to tell.
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one of the side effects of having so many spare pieces is that you can grab the wrong fender - I used the one with two lights when I needed the one with three lights, so I covered it up with some other random piece.
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Comments

19 January 2019, 15:39

Zach Wilson Author
Really interesting project. Lots of new stuff for me here, especially the giant stickers on the refrigerator car in the back. The chrome was a unique challenge as well. Also at least one of the decals is on upside down 🙂

19 January 2019, 15:42

Tom ...
Ka-Pow! That is some bling. Excellent work on the decals. The front bumper/fender looks really hard to do. I can skip my morning coffee... I'm wide awake now.

19 January 2019, 16:33

Zach Wilson Author
thanks bud. It was definitely the most challenging project I've done so far!

19 January 2019, 17:07

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
fabulous

19 January 2019, 17:12

Konrad -
Thats cool Zach just awesome 👍!

19 January 2019, 17:40

Carlos Cisneros
Very colorful! Beautiful work!

19 January 2019, 17:43

David Suhadolc
Been to Japan 11 times and can confirm these blinged out trucks exist. They don't have laws like the US does limiting vehicles to only certain colored lights. You can light up your car however you want to as long as it does not flash like a police car.

20 January 2019, 03:11

Bob Hall
Whoa ! Far out ! Gnarly work and detail ! A work of art, truly !

20 January 2019, 03:58

Chris Greathouse
Wow!!!!! Amazing work!! Do you have a progress album for this? I'd love to see from the start 🙂

20 January 2019, 04:02

Glenn
These trucks are crazy talk about "bling" i wonder how often they end up with a flat batteries or burnt out alternator. Nice job on the model too.

20 January 2019, 04:08

Chris Greathouse
I'm planning to build a wall mount display rack for my semi's/ future semi's.... May I ask the length, width and height of the truck so I can start playing around with sizes for the rack, it'll be a mixture of 1:24/25/32 trucks. I own 1:24/25 so I have their sizes, just not 1:32. Thanks! either in cm or inches is fine 🙂

20 January 2019, 04:21

Zach Wilson Author
Thanks Chris, the piece is 37x8x11cm. I added process pics, mostly I keep a log of my screwups and how I fixed them 🙂

20 January 2019, 04:39

Chris Greathouse
Thanks, I hope to build many of these! and I hope you continue to build more too! Again, fantastic. and the process pics are just as fun as the final result 😄

20 January 2019, 05:03

Zach Wilson Author
I plan to build at least one more, now that I know what I'm getting into. The biggest thing to take care with is that they clearly photoshopped the large stickers on the fridge car on the box art, which lead me to overwork the sticker on the right side, causing it to crinkle. I assumed it was some kind of shrink wrap or something to be able to pick up the details on the model. The colors are also hard to match exactly. I need to figure out a more optimal way to bond two pieces of chrome. I have some ideas about how I might do it in the future, and I certainly have a lot of spare plastic to practice on.

20 January 2019, 05:38